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[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Whitman says her former housekeeper should be deported [L.A. Times] Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman has reignited a controversy that roiled her campaign for weeks, saying the undocumented housekeeper she employed for nine years should be deported. california politics asshattery Former Fox News senior reporter says network wants to keep [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Roundup: Religious Groups Begin To Divide Over the "Anti-Abortion" Vote [RHRealityCheck.org - Robin Marty] …the Susan B. Anthony List … are a Republican hit group wrapping themselves in the guise of a PAC that supports "pro-life female candidates." … the group itself admits that it would prefer male politicians in [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Scary Tea Party Compilation [Informed Comment - Juan] You can’t make this stuff up. [links] tea_party Coffin technologies that protect you from being buried alive [io9 - Annalee Newitz] In the eighteenth century, rumors swirled about people accidentally buried alive when they lapsed into a deathlike state from cholera. As [...]

Copy-pasting from an email I received from the Participatory Politics Foundation: To find who your current senators and representative are, use our zipcode look-up tool. 1) RaceTracker – See who the candidates are, learn about their positions, and get a snapshot of the fundraising race. This is a collaborative wiki project, so if you have [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] The Republicans Hatch Nefarious New Plan To Shrink Government, Cut Taxes And Still Expand The Deficit! [Crooks and Liars - Susie Madrak] [On replacing Paygo with a more painful, less effective budgeting policy. Remind me, who're the party of fiscal responsibility? -L] republicans fiscal_policy Meowloween Kitteh of teh Day: But [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Now THIS Is The Way You Deal With Fox News …with parent company NewsCorp's $1M donation to the Republican Governors Association, I'd argue that the Republican Party is the political arm of Fox News Channel. And here is the absolutely perfect way for any self-respecting Democrat to deal with Fox [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Climate change: because it’s true, that’s why "…NASA's Climate Change evidence page [link]. It's basically one-stop shopping for clear, concise evidence that the Earth is warming up."… It's clear, authoritative, and visually striking: a single-link refutation to throw at denialists. Bookmark it now. global_climate_change Dallas Lawyer Seeks Continuance for ‘Very [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Ubuntu drops GNOME in favor of homegrown Unity UI [DesktopLinux.com] The "Unity" user interface that debuted in Ubuntu 10.10's Netbook Edition will be standard on the next version of the Ubuntu Desktop Edition, as well. Ubuntu Desktop 11.04 will replace the Linux distribution's default GNOME environment in favor of the [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] New male sartorial technology messes shit up “I can’t figure out how old anyone is. I can’t figure out how gay anyone is. On silent subway morning commutes there are no tells. The brogues, desert boots and quickstrike high-tops not only have me manic-fantasy-banging every well-dressed dude on the F…” [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] How to Fix the ‘Systemic Problem’ of Prosecutorial Misconduct in California | Criminal Justice | Change.org Between 1997 and 2009, California judges explicitly found that state prosecutors engaged in misconduct during criminal trials more than 700 times, from intimidating witnesses to witholding evidence that would exonerate the defendant, actions that [...]